Posts Tagged ‘Bicycle Sport Shop’

This recent local broadcast of Fox 7 News gives a quick overview of biking to work with resources from the City of Austin, Bicycle Sport Shop and Mellow Johnny’s. It’s a nice cursory look at biking as an option but does spend quite a bit of time focusing on showers. Also mentioned is the free [...]

If you’ve wanted to road race or are just looking to improve your skills, now’s your chance to learn from some of the best local pros. Bicycle Sport Shop’s pro team, Super Squadra, will be hosting a series of road racing clinics in January for both the beginner and more advanced racers. The Beginners classes [...]

If you’ve ever been anywhere near the UT campus on game day, you know parking and traffic are a nightmare. At one time, you could park a mile or so away for free and hoof it to the game. Now you have to pay big bucks to the Longhorn Foundation just for the right to [...]

As part of a program to encourage bicycle commuting and good bike etiquette, the City of Austin is partnering with local bike shops to put on a series of Bike Safety Check/Trail Etiquette Station every other Thursday 7 AM- 9 AM on the Pfluger Bridge October through December. The first will be hosted by Bicycle [...]

If you missed out on the Bicycle Film Festival or just want some more bike films, you’ve got another chance this week as Bicycle Sport Shop is hosting a screening of the film Freedom Riders at Jo’s South Congress this Thursday and Friday night. Tickets are $10 and include bike valet, drinks by Real Ale, [...]

We’d like to welcome Bicycle Sport Shop as the latest sponsor of Austin on Two Wheels. BSS owner Hill Abell served on the StreetsSmarts Task force that helped in the Master Bike Plan revisions and a has been a leader in Austin cycling advocacy for years. We are happy to have his store support our [...]

In the wake of Governor Rick Perry’s veto of the Safe Passing Bill in June, Bicycle Sport Shop’s community relations person, Leslie Luciano, worked with Bike Texas to promote a petition to collect the names of people who were upset by the blocking of this safety bill which had overwhelming bi-partisan support. Luciano made some [...]

Just posted by Brooks Goldsmith of Social Cycling ATX: From Wantandfound.com: The first person to visit the Bicycle Sport Shop South Lamar location and tell an employee at the front register “wantANDfound.com says Ride Your Bike Everywhere!” gets a $100 gift card, absolutely free. In order to spread the love, we’ll give the next five [...]

Leslie Luciano and Chris Carter at Bicycle Sport Shop have been writing at an official blog for the store for around two months now. They have a lot of good advocacy and event content up there now and I highly recommend giving their site a look. Recent articles on the BSS Blog have included coverage [...]

Our buds at Bicycle Sport Shop sent over this little announcement about Big Mountain Bike Adventures putting on an event at the BSS South Lamar store this Friday, the 15th. Gravity Slideshow Big Mountain Bike Adventures 6:00pm at Bicycle Sport Shop Central Free adult beverages provided